An antidote against distractions, or, An endeavour to serve the church, in the daily…An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily…

5. The more grace, the more disposed frame will the heart be in, for the service of God: And it is indisposition to an Ordinance, that lets in distractions there; as an instrument out of tune, hath divers jarring strings, and still one or other slips, and spoils the melody: a distraction is a string slipped, that spoils the music, a tuned and disposed heart would prevent it much. The flock of sheep that's indisposed and ⟨p. 198⟩unwilling to drive, start out of the way into every Lanes end; one this way, and another that; and just so is it with an unwilling heart, one thought starts this way, another that, and it's a piece of skill to drive them through. O but a willing heart, an heart prepared and ready to every good work, it flies up quite an end, and delights its self in the Lord, The Law of God is in his heart, none of his steps then shall slide, Psal. 37.31.

5. The more grace, the more disposed frame will the heart be in, for the service of God: And it is indisposition to an Ordinance, that lets in distractions there; as an instrument out of tune, hath divers jarring strings, and still one or other slips, and spoils the melody: a distraction is a string slipt, that spoils the musick, a tuned and disposed heart would prevent it much. The flock of sheep that's indisposed and ⟨p. 198⟩unwilling to drive, start out of the way into every Lanes end; one this way, and another that; and just so is it with an unwilling heart, one thought starts this way, another that, and it's a piece of skill to drive them through. O but a willing heart, an heart prepared and ready to every good work, it flies up quite an end, and delights its self in the Lord, The Law of God is in his heart, none of his steps then shall slide, Psal. 37.31.